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Touch-Up Dings and Corners

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Master Interior Painting. The Art of Touch-ups.

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What happens here

When repairing a ding on a corner or areas with loose paint or texture, start by addressing any raised imperfections. Use a multi-tool or a 2-edge scraper to gently scrape down and flatten any loose or built-up paint or texture. This creates a smooth, even surface for the touch-up. Once the surface is prepared, load only the corner of your dry brush with a tiny amount of diluted paint. Carefully dab the paint onto the corner ding, allowing the paint to fill the imperfection. Then, dry-feather the edges of the paint to blend it into the surrounding wall. This technique prevents paint from building up excessively and forming heavy, visible edges on the corner.

Goal: Repair and repaint dings or damaged paint on wall corners and textured areas.

Tools and materials

  • Multi-tool or 2-edge scraper — Scraping down loose paint or texture on corners
  • Diluted paint — Painting over corner dings

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to let that dry all right so we've got another Mark right here we've got a little ding on a corner little bit different color on this corner right here so we don't want to get paint on the corner we do have a big lot of texture right here you could take like a um a Lin bite scraper or two-edge knife and you can easily just scrape that down and flap that out and now just touch up all around that spot so we eliminated that so I'm just going to dob my brush in there get it nice and dry I'm just going to dob around that this whole Mar right here there was a chair or something that and then this corner right here I'm going to take just the corner of my brush and I'm just going to dob it right on the corner and there's a paint taken out cuz it was kind of a chip and if you just scrape your brush right there it's just going to fill that in nicely now I'll just dob it out right here and you can just dry feather it out you know if you need right here dry feather it out there and now that's all touched up right there so

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